LLM Reference

Llama 2 7B Chat

Released
2023-07-18
Last refreshed
2026-05-16
Status
Researched 46d ago
Open SourceClassificationJSON / Tool use

Llama 2 7B Chat is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
  • Workloads that can use a 4k context window
  • Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Family
Llama 2
Released
2023-07-18
Context
4k
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2022-09
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.070
Input / 1M
$0.070

Cheapest of 10 routes · DeepInfra

About

The Llama 2 7B Chat model is a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 2 series, optimized for conversational AI applications. Built on an auto-regressive transformer architecture, it boasts 7 billion parameters and has been trained on a diverse dataset of 2 trillion tokens. The model underwent supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback to enhance its performance in dialogue scenarios. It demonstrates competitive capabilities in terms of helpfulness and safety compared to both open-source and closed-source alternatives like ChatGPT and PaLM. Designed for commercial and research use, particularly in English language tasks, it's well-suited for developing chatbots, virtual assistants, and other interactive AI systems. More details can be found on its Hugging Face page .

Llama 2 7B Chat is an open-source model in the Llama 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, Baseten API, Fireworks AI, and 7 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama 2 7B Chat yet.

Top use-case fit

Classification

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JSON / Tool use

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Provider price ladder

Compare all 10

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
DeepInfra$0.070$0.070
Serverless
Lepton AI API$0.070$0.070
Serverless
Fireworks AI$0.200$0.200
Provisioned
Together AI$0.200$0.200
Serverless

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Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

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